Main content

Good Goods

Good Goods by Christina Anderson written by Christina Anderson

directed by Stephanie Weeks

Featuring members of Acting BFA Company #48 and the creative and production work of Theatre Design/Technology BFA students

The Performance Theatre, The Center for Media, Film, and Theatre (downstairs), Purchase College SUNY

Saturday, March 11, 2023 @ 1:30pm
Sunday, March 12, 2023 @ 7:30pm
Monday, March 13, 2023 @ 7:30pm
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 @ 7:30pm

The approximate runtime is 2 hours and 50 minutes. There will be a ten-minute intermission. 


cast

Jacquernst F. Filias | Stacey

Amani Kojo | Truth

Joshua Boyce | Wire (aka Patrick)

Precious Omigie | Patricia (aka Patty)

Ryley St. Rose-Finear | Sunny/Emekah

Steven Rutledge | Waymon as Hunter Priestess/Factory Folk


creative & production

Payge Lecakes & Elinor Kleber Diggs | Choreographers

Miles Miranda | Production Stage Manager
Ellie McIntyre | Assistant Stage Manager
Jagger Vera | Assistant Stage Manager

Grace Dziedzic | Technical Director
Chris Grainer | Lead Technical Designer
Carly Genovesi | Lead Shop Carpenter
Autumn Brathwaite | Production Flyman
Shira Barnir | Assistant Flyman

Charli Burkhardt | Scenic Designer
Kat Schorn | Assistant Scenic Designer
Zhengxue Qiao | Paint Charge
Kyler Sterner | Prop Charge
Luca Plitz | Assistant Prop Charge

Michele Rohr | Costume Designer
Laura Sternbach | Assistant Costume Designer & Wardrobe Supervisor

Jackie Cabrero | Lighting Designer
Zachary Dulny | Assistant Lighting Designer
Nolan Belcher | Production Electrician
Theo Silverman | Programmer

David Aab | Sound Designer
Dom Bogetto | Assistant Sound Designer
Fei Cheng | A1

Content Advisory

This production contains the use of artificial blood and flashing lights

Creative Team Profiles

Cast

Joshua Boyce is a 20 year old triple threat. Born in Barbados Josh studied dance and music at a very young age when he moved to New York at the age of four. Along his journey Josh fell in love with theater when he debuted in the leading role of boy #1 in the polar express. Since then Josh has continued to deepen and further his craft. Josh hopes to be big some day and move into directing and choreographing. Remember his name JOSHUA BOYCE it will be popping up everywhere in theater very soon. A quote he lives by is “look with your eyes see with you heart” and he encourages you all to do the same.

Jacquernst F. Filias is a third year BFA Actor, he’s Haitian born, Brooklyn based. Purchase credits include: Our Town (Dr. Gibbs), Road(Eddie), Orpheus Descending(Man and David Cutrere). Other credits include: Midsummer’s Night Dream(Mechanic) at New England Academy of Dance. He is excited for the role of Stacey. He thanks Stephanie for this opportunity and the amazing cast and crew.

Amani Kojo is a third year BFA actor from Queens, New York. Kojo’s credits at SUNY Purchase began with his mainstage debut of Everybody (Kinship/Mind/Evil/Somebody), followed by Our Town (Mr. Webb), Road (Joey/Brother) and most recently Orpheus Descending (Uncle pleasant). He is happy to be stepping into the role of Truth in this production of Good Goods. He would like to thank the director Stephanie Weeks and his fellow cast members for the amazing experience of working together. Kojo would also like thank his family and friends for all their love and support.

Precious Omigie is a fourth year BFA actor from Brooklyn, New York. Purchase Rep credits include: Truth and Reconciliation (Child/Grandma) Babette’s Feast (Astrid) Barbecue (Barbara) Serious Money (Scilla/Ms Biddulph) Cyrano de Bergerac (Leila Ragueneau) Thank you to her family and friends for their love and support!

Steven Rutledge is a third year BFA actor from Brooklyn, New York. Purchase Rep credits include: Sweat (Evan), Our Town (Wally Webb/Constable Warren) and Road (Jerry/Barry). Other credits include A Few Good Men (Kendrick), Peter and The Starcatcher (Romeo), and Legally Blonde (Emmett Forrest). He thanks his friends, family and everyone else who supports him!

Ryley St.Rose-Finear is a third year BFA actor based in NY. Previous Purchase credits include Our Town (Belligerent Man in back of auditorium, Woman among the dead, Lady in a box) and Road (Mr. and Mrs. Bald, Helen). Orpheus Descending (Nurse Porter). Ryley would like to thank her family for all their endless love and support, she could not do this without them.

Creative & Production

David Aab is a fourth year Lighting Designer from Warwick, NY. His Purchase Rep credits include We Are Proud To Present (Assist. Lighting Designer), Dialogue of the Carmelites (Programmer), and Everybody (Sound Designer). Other credits of his include Cinderella (Lighting Designer) at Philipstown Depot in Garrison and Footloose (Lighting Designer) at The Warner Theatre in Torrington. He would like to thank his family, his girlfriend, and his friends for supporting him throughout his journey thus far.

Charli Rose Burkhardt (Scenic Designer) is a Scenic Designer from Kings Park, NY and currently a senior in the BFA Theater Design/Tech major at SUNY Purchase. Past credits include: Cinderella and Sound Of Music at Philipstown Depot Theater (Scenic Designer), Scapin (Scenic Designer), Henry IV Part 1 and Life is a Dream (Assistant Scenic Designer) at SUNY Purchase. She would love to thank her family and friends for supporting her work and passion for creating new worlds for all to enjoy. She hopes you enjoy the immersion you are about to experience in Fefu and Her Friends!

Jackie Cabrero is a fourth year Lighting Design student from White Plains, NY. Purchase Rep credits include Barbecue and Waiting for Godot (Sound Designer), Life is a Dream (Asst. Lighting Designer), Walrus in the Body of a Crocodile (Asst. Sound Designer), Wolves Eat Elk and Passage (Programmer). Jackie has also worked extensively with the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase, following credits include: Umbra, Over/Saturated, Mosaic, Tableau and Ethereal (Lighting Designer). Jackie would like to thank her friends and family for all of their support.

Grace Dziedzic

Miles Miranda

Michele Rohr is a third year Costume Designer/Technician from St. Louis, MO. Purchase Rep credits include Everybody (Assistant Costume Designer) and Henry IV Part I (Wardrobe Supervisor). A special thanks to her husband and children and the Purchase faculty who have supported her on this phenomenal career change journey.

Director Profile

Stephanie Weeks is an award winning actor and director. She has performed at renowned theaters including The Public, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, La Jolla Playhouse among others. With Target Margin Theater she was awarded for her years of dedication, the OBIE for Recognition of Artistic Achievement and Commitment to Excellence in Theater as an Associate Artist. She is a 2023 Audie Award Finalist for her Voice Over work in The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekiyiamah in the non-fiction category. Stephanie also starred in the film “Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted-Mutha,” Official Selection of the Tribeca Film Festival directed by acclaimed director Melvin Van Peebles. Television Credits include Tales of The City starring Laura Linney on Netflix, The Good Fight (CBS) and Law & Order (NBC). In her directing work, she’s directed A Boy and His Soul by Colman Domingo at the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, Eclipsed by Danai Gurira at University of Utah, awarded Outstanding Performance and Production Ensemble by the Kennedy Center (Festivention Series). Other productions include “After Midnight” for the Target Margin Yiddish Theater Lab, Fun Home by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, and Machinal by Sophie Treadwell at New York University, to name a few. She holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and has a certificate of study from London Academy of Music and Drama.  

About the Conservatory of Theatre Arts

In our teaching and art, the Conservatory values inclusiveness, equality, and excellence. Upholding all of our training is our aim to train and graduate citizen artists: multifaceted people with a strong sense of purpose in approaching an arts education.
What is a citizen artist? Citizen artists seek to discover how their unique voices can contribute to our world. They understand what it means to be an artist, and what they are here on earth to say and do and make.

The Conservatory trains future citizen artists in three degree programs:

+ BFA Actor Training. The BFA is an intensive professional training program offered to a highly select and diverse group of students. The professional training is anchored in four years of study in acting, voice, speech, and movement, complemented by offerings in dramatic literature and analysis, history of the theatre, stage combat, improvisation, mask work, acting for the camera, and the business of acting. As one of five schools in the Consortium of Professional Theatre Training Programs, Purchase is one of a handful of colleges in the world capable of training artists at this level—and of drawing a faculty from the ranks of professional theatre

+ BFA in Theatre Design/Technology. Emphasizing studio and classroom training, our professional training program in theatre design/technology gives students the guidance and support of established and theatre industry professionals. Many of our alumni are recognized at the top of their field, and have received Tony, Emmy, Obie, and Drama Desk Awards, among other honors. Quite literally, Purchase grads are working in or have worked in every theatre on Broadway, in all tristate venues, and with countless touring productions

+ BA program in Theatre and Performance. From traditional theatre to cutting-edge interdisciplinary work, the theatre and performance major encourages creativity, intellectual curiosity, social engagement, and critical thinking. The core requirements combine scholarship and practice to provide students with a strong foundation in theatre history and dramatic literature, with mandatory stagecraft/production courses. Theatre and Performance majors are encouraged to expand the scope of their education by studying abroad, as well as pursuing coursework in other programs of study within the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Purchase College